History Blog August Archive

The art of war (military science wrote by SunZi)

By Eastsoft Team at 08/05/08 05:51

The art of war is the earliest, most complete and famous military writing with high status in Chinese military history, its essence has very profound influence to the Chinese militarists, politicians and thinkers in all past dynasties, which has been translated into up to ten languages as Japanese, English, French, German and Russian etc, popular to worldwide.

The art of war was written between BC 515 to BC 512. The book is divided into 13 chapters, discussed the confronting and conversion of series contradiction associated with the war, and put forward to its own complete strategy and tactics ideology meticulously and profoundly, owning extensively influence and enjoying extreme prestige in military field. Any further information, please log on http://www.eastsoft.info/ and download it.

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Chinese classic book- Tao Te Ching

The Tao Te Ching is the philosophical counterpart –the rival and the complement– to the Analects of Confucius. These two classics are the foundational works of their respective traditions, Daoism and Confucianism, which may be said to constitute the yin and yang of Chinese culture. The Tao Te Ching is primarily reflective in nature, while the Analects is more activist. Both works consist of pithy lines mixed in with longer passages, but the Analects is rooted in concrete historical settings and deals with specific persons and problems.

In contrast, The Tao Te Ching is without obvious historical markers and gives the impression of timeless universality. Beyond saying that these works have been traditionally associated with Confucius and Laozi, and that both works address central themes of a dramatic period of Chinese history (ca. 500-350 b.c.), there has been no scholarly consensus on how to date or even define either one.

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